----My Faith in You----
"It's morning already?" Kagome said in a stern tone. My big day… yet I'm not excited. Why not? Maybe because mom didn't wake me up with her birthday song… Or Souta didn't jump on top of me. Or grandpa didn't parade around my room chanting charms. How strange though, none of this happened. Could it be because I'm finally 16, somewhat of a young adult? Whatever the reason, I don't care…
It seemed it was just another regular school day. Kagome packed her bags with heavily stacked textbooks, grabbed a toast and walked out the door. As the door slammed quietly, no one had noticed she was gone. Or at least, no one had noticed she was even here.
When she got to school her friends crowed around her, giving her huge pinches and hugs.
"Kagome, Kagome it's really you!"
"What luck you got better from Chicken Noodle Warts!"
"And on time for your birthday too! This is great!" Her friends shouted out.
Grandpa really ran out of things to say this time… Chicken Noodle Warts! I love chicken noodles!
"Hey guys." Kagome said noticing a girl behind her friends.
"Kagome? You don't look like yourself, are you okay? By the way, Happy Birthday, here." A boy said surprising her from behind, giving her a little gift.
"Huh! Oh it's you Houjou. Oh. Thank you, but you really didn't have to." Kagome spoke, starring curiously at the other girl.
"Hey Kagome, it's not so nice to stare at others! Haha." Her short-haired friend yelled out, patting her on the back.
"That's a new girl. She's in our math class. I hear she's really good at it, and she comes from some private school. Talk about eerie." Kagome's other friend said, leaving silence between them.
"Hey you guys wanna go to WacDonalds, our treat Kagome?" The curly-haired girl asked grasping Kagome's hand.
"You know what! I'll meet you guys there okay!" Kagome said walking slowly towards the girl.
"Awww, well okay then. But if you're slightly late I swear Kagome the last punch will have to be hard." The girl said walking away with the rest of her friends, of course dragging Houjou with them.
Kagome walked more rapidly after she saw her friends fade away from the distance. She saw the mysterious girl, starring at the clouds as they moved slowly with the earth's motion.
"Um hi! Sorry to interrupt you, but my name is Kagome Higurashi, I just heard your new-" Kagome began being cut off by the inquisitive girl.
"The family of Higurashi? Your mother is she the keeper of the Higure Shrine?" The girl asked in a very powerful tone.
"Huh.. I mean yes! She is… and who might you be?" Kagome said questioning her.
"Oh I'm terribly sorry, my name is Rai Ayumisa. You see my mother and your mother use to be very close friends…" The brunette said, facing Kagome with her sandy, glowing brown eyes.
Kagome looked up as the sky perplexingly became darker. She grabbed Rai's hands, and pulled her up.
"Let's go, me and my friends are going to go eat.. because it's actually my birthday." Kagome began, dragging her forward.
"Well now, how's that for irony. Aren't you going to miss school?" Rai said following her steps in synchronized movement.
"Well actually, I'm not supposed to be at school, haha. And besides it's my treat, well supposedly my friends.. but oh well." Kagome responded hesitating to walk out the school grounds.
"Isn't there a penalty for missing school?" Rai spoke in anxiety, tapping her forehead.
"C'mon." Kagome said pulling her from the gates which led to the streets.
They had just reached WacDonald's, when Kagome looked through the window and saw no sign of her friends. So she decided to head for her house. They probably are trying to throw some surprise party.. no wonder! As the silence grew more between Rai and Kagome, the more Kagome felt to share her inner most feelings and thoughts. Just then she did.- -
"Rai, do you ever feel trapped?" Kagome spoke narrowing her eyes miserably at the floor. She saw Kagome do this and stared the opposite way, as she did a rain drop fell onto her nose.
"Yes I do." Rai responded, as both she and Kagome tried to run under a huge tree.
Kagome starred at her astonished of how fast her personality seemed to change.
"Sometimes it feels like I'm doing something wrong. That I should be doing something else, because that's what my heart wants me to do. But I'm forced not to because of the way I may end up like." Rai continued.
"It's amazing because I feel the same way, I feel trapped in all ways. Whether the feelings or the people around me. I feel like I should share them so it would help me, but it would probably feel like I'm hurting someone…" Kagome added gazing upon the leaves that trembled, as the loud thunder vibrated throughout the city.
"We should get to my place fast, before we get caught under the thunder too." Kagome spoke spreading a huge smile through her aura of sadness. At that moment, Rai smiled back, and probably chuckled a bit too. Rai is probably the only true friend I ever knew who actually understands me… I wonder… if I should tell her everything...
They reached to Kagome's shrine just in time before the storm had gotten extremely inferior.
"Extraordinary how these storms attack the city out of nowhere. The sky was clear with a ceiling so blue, and then suddenly clouds began to collide in dark rage." Rai spoke catching a white towel.
"That's right you're coming from another town right?" Kagome asked also handing over a pair of clothes.
"Yes. Oh I really don't need this I should be heading home soon. I feel awfully bad, it's your birthday and I'm probably just ruining it even more." Rai stuttered, trying to go out the door.
"I want you to stay please. Just for a while! I haven't shown you this shrine yet, and other things." Kagome asked politely not letting go of the gap that is closed by the door.
Rai really felt like staying too, because of her interesting speeches and curiosity. But also she felt an unexpected feeling of daggers stabbing her back, when she first stepped onto the ground of this awkward shrine. A feeling, that instantly told her heart to stay. Should I ask her?
Kagome eagerly showed Rai the shrine, and some of the history which she knew. Alas a point where the one room had caused utter silence between the two, the well.
Rai felt a presence like no other, a familiar presence which she could not explain. The expression on her face went from calm to serious. Her heart pounded like hands thumping loudly onto the hard surfaces of drums. She gasped slowly with no rhythm to pace it. Her light brown eyes widened, as her pupil shrunk in a quivering wave. I remember… what happened. I remember…
"Kagome…" Rai whispered, not hesitating to look up at her.
Kagome looked up at her, and realized that she knew this place, she knew about everything.
"I was a child! My mother knew about this well, and that's why I lived in the other city. To forget about this shrine, everything about it. Because of… Inuyasha! But now I remember… I remember everything that happened. That's why these stupid nightmares kept haunting me each night!" Rai told Kagome, folding her fists like hammers about to strike something hard. Kagome was stunned by this new information. She did know… It explains everything now, the dreams that Sesshomaru was having. The girl was her…
"I can't believe it! It all makes sense now… you. You've traveled through the well?" Kagome asked approaching her quietly, she glanced at her walk and quickly turned away.
"It was a mistake and still is. I knew I shouldn't have come here.. I knew it!" Rai answered trying to escape.
"But if you were able to pass through the well. That means…" Kagome spoke widening her eyes, as she covered her mouth after a huge gasp was let out.
"Hh.. yea.- -" Rai answered being cut off.
"No it can't be, InuYasha was under a spell for 50 years… long before we were even born." Kagome told Rai shaking and nodding her head over and over.
"What?"
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Dear mom,
I'm sorry about everything, but I had to leave soon. Oh and there will be a familiar guest who's going to visit you here. She'll probably be looking for Rai… Rai Ayumisa. She's with me… I hope you could come up with a reasonable explanation. Thanks mom, love you!
Kagome.